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2016年12月大学英语四级听力改革练习题(1)

来源 :中华考试网 2016-11-25

  Section C

  Compound Dictation

  Computers are increasingly important in health care.But can they also help poor people escape (36) ______? Vikram Sheel Kumar thinks so. MisterKumar is a doctor, an engineer and the owner of asmall business in Boston, Massachusetts. And, inSeptember, this 28-year-old received an (37) ______ for Technology in Service to Humanity, which came from Technology Review magazine.

  His (38) ______ is to improve health care in poor nations with the help of computers smallenough to hold in one hand. These devices are known as personal digital (39) ______ , orP.D.A.'s.

  Doctor Kumar started his company two years ago. It is called Dimagi, which means "smart guy"in Hindi (北印度语). His parents came from India. There, Dimagi computer programs are used to(40) ______ medical information on more than seventy thousand patients.

  Doctor Kumar says health care workers had problems at first, but then learned quickly how touse the devices. Nurses no longer have to carry heavy (41) ______ whenever they travel to(42) ______. And they no longer have to copy large amounts of health information by hand.

  In South Africa, health workers are using a Dimagi program for a different purpose in theKwaZulu-Natal area. They use it to provide (43) ______ with results from tests for H.I.V., thevirus that causes AIDS. (44) ____________________________________________________________ .

  Doctor Vikram Kumar says (45) _______________________________________________________ . He says (46) _______________________________________________________________ . And he urgespeople to suggest ways to improve it. Dimagi programs are written in code that is open toanyone.

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